The last several months I’ve been busy working on screenplays. I have adapted both of my books. My screenplay adaptation of Scapegoat has placed in two different screenplay competitions. My screenplay for 35 Miles From Shore is a quarterfinalist in the Fresh Voices screenplay competition. I’ll update this post if the script advances further. Scapegoat […]

Today is my birthday. I’m not doing anything special, but I do remember where I was twenty years ago on this day. I was in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. I was there with Allison who was just ten days old. She was fighting for her life. Lynn and […]

In the last post, I created a Facebook page for my upcoming book Scapegoat. The next step in separating my author activities from my personal posts to friends and family is to create a separate author Facebook page. This is the place where people can follow my writing and promotional activities. Anyone can “like” the […]

Scapegoat is now in the hands of the editor. The target date for the book’s release is March 4, 2016. The book still has to be typeset, advanced copies need to be sent out to potential endorsers, and advanced review copies have to be sent out. Then there is the actual printing, eBook formatting, and […]

Like everyone else, I have been following the Malaysia Flight 370 story. I’m looking at the story through the prism of my work on TWA 841. I see many similarities, from accusations of crew involvement, to the repercussions to Boeing if something mechanical caused the plane to crash, to the mystery of what really happened. […]